Top 15 Wah!Cade Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

Wah!Cade is a GNU/Linux friendly clone of Minwah's excellent MameWAH.
It's a front end for games and emulators (e.g. the M.A.M.E. arcade game emulator), and has been designed with arcade cabinet controls & projects in mind.
The source code is released under the GNU GPL license.

1. GameEx

GameEx GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, GameBase, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a complete Home Theatre PC solution or plug in for Windows Media Center . It's designed to be used seamlessly with arcade controls and various arcade......

2. AdvanceMenu

AdvanceMenu AdvanceMENU is a GNU/Linux, DOS and Windows front-end for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator.The main features are:Simply download and run. Copy the executable and run it.Auto update of the ROM info.Vertical and horizontal orientation.Support for any TV/Arcade Monitor like AdvanceMAME but it's good also for a......

3. Mamewah

Mamewah MAMEWAH is a customisable multiple emulator frontend capable of running countless emulators, including everyone's favourite arcade emulator, M.A.M.E. MAMEWAH is primarily intended for use with real arcade controls, including joysticks (digital or analog), trackballs and spinners. MAMEWAH hides the Windows environment which makes it ideal for use in a home......

4. jGameBase

jGameBase jGameBase is a fully-­featured retro-gaming emu­lator frontend and game database utility. It is a sister app­lication to the Windows program GameBase (without "j"), the official frontend for the GB64 Collection.Screenshot of jGameBase GUI jGameBase sup­ports vir­tually any emu­lator for any sys­tem and has ver­satile data­base search­ing and filter­ing......

5. Gelide

Gelide Gelide is a configurable frontend which let you manage any kind of emulated system (PC, console, arcade, etc) letting you to catalog and launch any game from any existing emulator under GNU/Linux.With Gelide,you can configure any emulator with command line parameters support, without the need of remember them every now......

6. mGALAXY

mGALAXY mGalaxy is the best and easiest Mame and multi-emulator frontend for Windows layed out in a neat and nice interface.More social network pages:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mGalaxyFE......

7. HyperSpin

HyperSpin HyperSpin is an animated arcade frontend for Windows for use on Home Arcade Machines. HyperSpin allows you to create custom menu systems to run most executables with that arcade look and feel. HyperSpin takes a more artwork oriented approach to creating menu's. With this tool you should be able to......

8. QMC2 - M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II

QMC2 - M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II QMC2 is the successor of one of the first UNIX M.A.M.E. GUI front ends available on this planet called QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMamecat was based upon Qt 2; its development was frozen in 2003.By the beginning of March 2006, we started to build QMC2 from scratch......

9. Mala

Mala MaLa is a multi emulator front-end designed for all 32bit Windows operating systems (I have had reports it work fine on 64 bit) . It supports the Windows command line version of MAME with XML ROM info (> 0.84), PC Games and all command line based emulators. You can easily......

10. Atomic FE

Atomic FE Atomic FE is a Front-End for Multi-emulators. It?s been made mainly to be used with games of arcade MAME. Furthermore, it would be possible to utilize Atomic FE with any other emulator as a result of small configuration efforts. Eventually, Atomic FE can be used to launch any application, as......

11. Gens Re-Recording

Gens Re-Recording Gens Re-Recording, formerly known as Gens Movie Test, is a modification of the highly popular Gens emulator by Stéphane Dallongeville (also known as Stef). This modification includes slowdown, recording and playback of controller input logs, dumping of AVI files, and Lua scripting. This emulator is primarily used by the TASVideos......

12. jEnesis

jEnesis "jEnesis" is a Sega MegaDrive/Genesis Emulator entirely writtenin Java. Features Everything written completely from scratch Custom Java Motorola 68000 CPU core VDP emulation with all DMA modes Horizontal & Vertical Interrupts Support for PAL/NTSC and all country codes 100% pure Java Code .smd, .bin & .zip support .smd files......

13. Genesis Plus

Genesis Plus Genesis Plus is a freeware, open-source, portable emulator for the Genesis and MegaDrive consoles. Mirror at Zophar's Domain: http://www.zophar.net/genesis/genesis-plus.html......

14. SDLMAME / MESS

SDLMAME / MESS SDLMame is a variant of M.A.M.E. (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator).SDLMame should work with both Mac, Linux and any other SDL framework supported OS. SDLMame provides Mac and Linux users the latest build of Mame with only minimal lag time against the Dos and Win builds. http://sdlmame.lngn.net/ Ideally you will need......

15. BeMAME

BeMAME BeMAME is a BeOS native version of MAME which is one of the most popular emulators ever. It supports a few thousand classic arcade games, including the famous Neo Geo games! Built-in userfriendly GUI.......